[Early stage: He crushed her, thinking it was revenge]
The regent Xiao Jue imprisoned Shen Zhiyi, the daughter of the guilty minister, in his mansion. He hated her family for "collaborating with the enemy and treason", which resulted in the tragic death of his father and the burial of 80,000 soldiers. Therefore, humiliation is her daily meal, and cold eyes are her winter clothes to keep out the cold. He looked at her like an ant and was happy to see the fire in her eyes extinguished inch by inch.
[Mid stage: She swallows despair and her heart turns to ashes]
Shen Zhiyi was reduced from a noble lady to the lowest maidservant, struggling in the constant mental retardation and physical torture. Every weak hope (his moment of trance, his unexpected child, the return of his lost brother) will be extinguished by him or the gentle and vicious "White Moonlight" beside him. Until that day, she saw with her own eyes the blood of her last close relative, blood splattered on the spot because of his cold command. She finally stopped crying.
[Later period: She sacrifices her death so that he can understand the pain]
On the edge of the cliff, she looked back, smiled, jumped into the abyss, and completely disappeared from his world. Then, the cruel truth exploded like thunder - the Shen family, full of loyal people, was actually the scapegoat; she was the only warm redemption he had been looking for for half his life, even as a child. He searched like crazy, slaughtered the real culprits, and dispersed all the power, but only got a strange glimpse of her in the rainy alley in Jiangnan five years later.
[Ending: Remaining warm to the bones, losing love forever]
"Your Majesty," she said in a distant tone while holding her pink-carved daughter, "the past has long passed away like the water flowing under our feet."
He stood there, watching her decisive back disappear into the misty rain, and finally understood——
The cruelest revenge in this world is not hatred, but forgetfulness.
And he will be trapped by her for the rest of his life
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